21 Associated Research Groups have been newly joined to our research area.

List and details of each group are here. (In Japanese)

Place: Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Presentation date: March 28^th, 2018

　

With a support of International Activity Support Group of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "The Birth of New Plant Species", I could attend the 59^th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists and gave an invited talk, Cellular Dynamics in Arabidopsis Fertilization, in the symposium, New Trends of Plant Reproduction Emerging from Cell Biological Approaches. I would like to thank the organizer Dr. Daisuke Maruyama for inviting me and the support for allowing me to trip to Japan.

　

I could talk with many Japanese scientists including the group members about the future direction of plant reproduction field as well as possible collaborations. After the meeting, I also visited Drs. Nobutaka Mitsuda and Miho Ikeda at AIST, Tsukuba to discuss collaborations. We hope that these collaborations will establish an exciting research field addressing new fundamental questions in plant reproduction.

　

Tomokazu Kawashima

Assistant Professor, Dept. Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

　

　

The 25th ICSPR Satellite Symposium

Here's the second one ↓　

　

ICSPR Satellite Symposium＠KIBR

Date：18/Jun/2018

Place：Kihara Insititute for Biological Research (KIBR), Yokohama City University

Organizer：Prof. Tetsu Kinoshita, Yokohama City University ( a principal investigator of planned research)

　

Program

　

　

We hosted 2 satellite syposiums jointly with the 25th ICSPR.

　

Here's the first one ↓　

　

ICSPR Satellite Symposium「Frontiers & Future of Plant Reproduction Research」

Date：10-11/Jun/2018

Place：Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University

Organizer：Prof. Tetsuya Higashiyama, Nagoya University (our head investigator)

　

Program

　

The 25th International Congress on Sexual Plant Reproduction (Plant Reproduction 2018) was held on 11 - 16/Jun/2018 at Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan.

THe congress was hosted by the International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR), which our head investigator, Prof. Tetsuya Higashiyama (Nagoya University), serves as president.

Our research area jointly hosted the congress and one of the principal investigators of planned research, Prof. Tetsu Kinoshita (Yokohama City University) have acted as a main organizer.

　

The number of participants was 335 from 30 countries, which highly exceeded the target of 300.

The number of presentations in poster sessions exceeded 200, of which more than half were presented by young researchers such as students or postdoctoral researchers who are responsible for the next generation.

The next congress (Plant Reproduction 2020) will take place in Prague (Czech Republic), from June 22-26, 2020.​

　

See the detailed program for the 25th ICSPR below,

http://forum.nacos.com/icspr2018/index.html